Pesticide Use and Pest Management Practices
for Major Crops in North Dakota 1996

ER 43
1998

Table 3. Acreage planted, acreage treated, and percentage of planted acreage treated with pesticides in crop reporting districts of North Dakota, 1996.

District

Acres planted1 Pesticide treated acres2
Treated seed On-farm treated seed Herbi-
cide
Insecti- cide Fungi-
cide
Dessi- cants Treated seed On-farm treated seed Herbi-
cide
Insecti-
cide
Fungi-
cide
Dessi-
cants
(1000) (1000) (1000) (1000) (1000) (1000) (1000) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)


Oats

Northwest 45.0 7.5 7.5 27.3 0.0 - - 16.7 16.7 60.6 0.0 - -
North Central 52.0 10.1 9.7 25.7 - - - 19.5 18.6 49.4 - - -
Northeast 19.0 1.2 0.2 10.7 - - - 6.2 1.2 56.3 - - -
West Central 85.0 5.6 5.1 26.7 - - - 6.6 6.0 31.4 - - -
Central 60.0 3.8 2.8 32.1 - - - 6.3 4.6 53.5 - - -
East Central 10.0 1.2 0.9 6.5 - 0.2 - 11.8 8.8 64.6 - 2.2 -
Southwest 77.0 4.5 4.1 27.2 3.5 - 0.0 5.8 5.3 35.3 4.5 - 0.0
South Central 125.0 1.3 0.9 28.8 0.0 - - 1.0 0.7 23.1 0.0 - -
Southeast 57.0 1.0 - 33.6 - - - 1.7 - 58.9 - - -

Total

530.0 36.2 31.2 218.5 3.5 0.2 0.0 6.8 5.9 41.2 0.7 0.0 0.0

1Preliminary estimates by the North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service.

2Multiple applications to the same acreage were totaled as one application.